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Posts tagged with 'faust' at MetaFilter.Mon, 20 Oct 2014 10:24:13 -0800Mon, 20 Oct 2014 10:24:13 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60I went down to the crossroads, fell down on my knees...http://www.metafilter.com/143764/I%2Dwent%2Ddown%2Dto%2Dthe%2Dcrossroads%2Dfell%2Ddown%2Don%2Dmy%2Dknees
Whether you are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust">a scholar looking for more knowledge and pleasure</a> in life, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson">a bluesman looking for more talent and success</a>, or a <a href="http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/the-simpsons-classic-bart-sells-his-soul-107447">4th grade boy looking to make a quick buck</a>, perhaps the time is right to leverage that one thing for which there was previously no market? The <a href="http://soultradingcompany.com/index.php">soultradingcompany.com</a> is here to help! </></a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.143764Mon, 20 Oct 2014 10:24:13 -0800moskAlone, in an aqueous atmosphere where distant bells lingerhttp://www.metafilter.com/140414/Alone%2Din%2Dan%2Daqueous%2Datmosphere%2Dwhere%2Ddistant%2Dbells%2Dlinger
<a href="http://www.diseasedgardens.com/MyNewBlog/">Diseased Gardens</a> offers <a href="http://www.diseasedgardens.com/MyNewBlog/front-page/">a selection of 20th C. weird fiction from Belgium and France</a> as well as a <a href="http://www.diseasedgardens.com/MyNewBlog/strange-fiction-in-translation-2/">checklist of strange fiction in translation</a>. "<a href="http://www.diseasedgardens.com/MyNewBlog/michel-de-ghelderode-the-diseased-garden/">The Diseased Garden</a>" by <a href="http://vimeo.com/51204443">Michel de Ghelderode</a>:
<blockquote>June 1917. With time what we most ardently desire almost always comes to pass; but such is the perpetual dissatisfaction of the heart that we fail to recognize it, or else that which comes to pass no longer lives up to the dream we had of it.</blockquote>
"<a href="http://www.diseasedgardens.com/MyNewBlog/jean-ray-mondschein-dampfer/">Mondschein-Dampfer</a>" by <a href="http://weirdfictionreview.com/2011/11/ghosts-fear-and-parallel-worlds-the-supernatural-fiction-of-jean-ray/">Jean Ray</a>:
<blockquote>You'll be taken aback and say that I'm insulting Paris, Vienna and even London: it's Berlin that I love.</blockquote>
"<a href="http://www.diseasedgardens.com/MyNewBlog/marcel-brion-sibilla-van-loon/">Sibilla van Loon</a>" by <a href="http://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/06/marcel-brion-invitation-to-the-voyage/">Marcel Brion</a>:
<blockquote>I wouldn't have dared enter that room if the little girl hadn't stood in front of me and taken me by the hand.</blockquote>
"<a href="http://www.diseasedgardens.com/MyNewBlog/franz-hellens-fog/">Fog</a>" by <a href="http://weirdfictionreview.com/2013/07/the-many-doubles-of-franz-hellens/">Franz Hellens</a>:
<blockquote>The most extraordinary episode in my life? It's a good question. For anyone capable of feeling, of observation, the most matter-of-fact existence offers really extraordinary circumstances where meanings are as it were turned inside-out, where one's awareness goes off down a queer path and loses itself in labyrinthine hallucinations. </blockquote>
"<a href="http://www.diseasedgardens.com/MyNewBlog/donatienne-and-her-destiny/">Donatienne and Her Destiny</a>" by <a href="http://www.diseasedgardens.com/MyNewBlog/thomas-owen-three-stories-donatienne-the-watch-bernkastel-cemetery/">Thomas Owen</a>:
<blockquote>Donatienne studied the house.</blockquote>
<blockquote>"It's a really ugly house," she thought.</blockquote>
"<a href="http://www.diseasedgardens.com/MyNewBlog/the-watch/">The Watch</a>" by <a href="http://tartaruspress.blogspot.com/2012/11/why-you-should-read-thomas-owen.html">Thomas Owen</a>:
<blockquote>It was raining. A dirty little fine grey rain that had lasted for two days.</blockquote>
"<a href="http://www.diseasedgardens.com/MyNewBlog/at-bernkastel-cemetery/">At Bernkastel Cemetery</a>" by <a href="http://www.lamediatheque.be/the/auteurs_belges/auteurs/owen_thomas_.html">Thomas Owen</a>:
<blockquote>This is a true story. It features Jean Ray, who has authorized me to report it here, so that I can insert a supplementary item into the dossier of that strange man who, much more than you can imagine, lived on the margins of our everyday world.</blockquote>
"<a href="http://www.diseasedgardens.com/MyNewBlog/claude-seignolle-the-matago/">The Matago</a>" by <a href="http://www.heresie.com/seignolle/">Claude Seignolle</a>:
<blockquote>On that warm autumnal close of day crimped with russet shadows, I'd stopped at the Green Oak inn, in the little town of S***, in Sologne.</blockquote>
"<a href="http://www.diseasedgardens.com/MyNewBlog/jean-louis-bouquet-the-maidens-of-the-night/">The Maidens of the Night</a>" by <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Bouquet">Jean-Louis Bouquet</a>:
<blockquote>For a long time I wrote adventure stories for the enjoyment of humble souls, novels that lead them always amazed and enraptured along cleverly winding trails, across the most well-gardened and best landscaped districts of the imagination.</blockquote>
"<a href="http://www.diseasedgardens.com/MyNewBlog/the-city-of-darkness/">The City of Darkness</a>" by <a href="http://www.diseasedgardens.com/MyNewBlog/francis-lacassin-the-darkness-outside-jean-louis-bouquet-after-1950/">Jean-Louis Bouquet</a>:
<blockquote>Between 1925 and 1930 several singular individuals met each evening in a pavilion, under the leafy shadows of an old, private avenue in Auteuil.</blockquote> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.140414Tue, 01 Jul 2014 23:13:36 -0800Monsieur Caution"If you take away the penises isn't this a Scott Snyder Batman comic?"http://www.metafilter.com/124582/If%2Dyou%2Dtake%2Daway%2Dthe%2Dpenises%2Disnt%2Dthis%2Da%2DScott%2DSnyder%2DBatman%2Dcomic
For their <cite>Comic Books are Burning in Hell</cite> podcast <a href="http://www.factualopinion.com/the_factual_opinion/2013/02/a-celebratory-conclusion-tim-vigil-and-faust.html">Joe McCulloch, Tucker Stone, Matt Seneca and Chris Mautner take on Tim Vigil and <cite>Faust</cite></a>. Featuring extensive notes and artwork perhaps not suitable for viewing at work. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Vigil">Tim Vigil</a> you might call one of the genuine "superstars" of the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070217220403/http://www.tcj.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=366&Itemid=48">mid-eighties black and white comics boom</a>. Based on the success of <cite>Cerebus</cite> and especially <cite>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles</cite>, dozens and dozens of new and shitty independent comics publishers sprung up pushing out hundreds of mediocre titles, with the occasional hidden gem, all in an effort to become the new Turtles. Speculators and comics shops jumped on the bandwagon, print runs went sky high and of course it all ended with tears before bedtime, as actually, none of them would ever been the new Turtles.
Where Tim Vigil differed is that he did find his own niche and audience, first for a publisher called <cite><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverwolf_Comics">Silverwolf</a></cite> in a comic called <cite>Grips</cite>, starring a sort of Wolverine-esque hero with big claws. It was written by the publisher, Kris Silver, himself, who was not very good. Vigil had a falling out with him, largely due to money, got together with a comics fan and off-off broadway playwright <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Quinn_(writer)">David Quinn</a> and created <cite>Faust</cite>, starring another anti-hero with big claws. This was an over the top horror superhero comic that at its zenith sold something like 50,000 copies an issue and one of the few titles to survive when the black and white comics boom burst. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.124582Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:32:12 -0800MartinWisseWhen I'm six-six-sixhttp://www.metafilter.com/82674/When%2DIm%2Dsixsixsix
If you thought The Beatles' incredible success had something to do with talent, hard work, good luck or a combination of the three, you'd be wrong. <a href="http://www.traditioninaction.org/bkreviews/A_026br_LennonProphecy.htm">It was all Satan's work.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.82674Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:05:37 -0800aldurtregiThe Blegdamsvej Fausthttp://www.metafilter.com/79253/The%2DBlegdamsvej%2DFaust
The year is 1932. Hitler is rising in power. Harold Urey announces the discovery of deuterium, a hydrogen isotope. James Chadwick discovers the neutron. Heisenberg receives the Nobel Prize for his work in Quantum physics. It is a miracle year in Physics, matched only by Einstein's advances in 1905. A few of the most brilliant physicists in the world decide to convene in Copenhagen and ... <a href="http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/segre07/segre07_index.html">write a play!</a> Written on the 100th anniversary of the death of Goethe, <a href="http://www.peterdsmith.com/archives/2008/09/29/faust-and-the-physicists/">The Blegdamsvej Faust</a> is a remarkable document from a turning point in Physics. Among the cast of characters:
Mephistopheles: played by <a href="http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Pauli.html">Wolfgang Pauli</a>
"His ability to make experiments self destruct simply by being in the same room was legendary, and has been dubbed the "Pauli effect"
The Lord: played by <a href="http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95oct/nbohr.html">Neils Bohr</a>
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
Faust: played by <a href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Ehrenfest.html">Paul Ehrenfest</a>
"The physicists transform Faust's death scene at the end of Goethe's play into a moment of supreme bathos. Mephistopheles ushers a press photographer on stage and it is this that is Faust's undoing. Paul Ehrenfest utters Faust's famous dying words, just as he is about to be immortalized by the photographer:
"Faust (highly excited, he takes a pose for the press photographer)
To this fair moment let me say:
'You are so beautiful – Oh, stay!'
A trace of me will linger 'mongst the Great,
Within the annals of The Fourth Estate.
Anticipating fortune so benign,
I now enjoy the moment that is mine!"'
including the characters of Oppenheimer (Oppie), Landau, Gamow, Dirac and Chadwick.
The Blegdamsvej Faust was written in German. In his intimately written book, <i>Thirty Years that Shook Physics</i>, Gamow <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=L90_wY1VCW0C&pg=PA171&dq=archangel+eddington#PPA177,M1">publishes the English translation.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.79253Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:31:46 -0800vacapintaWFMU-TVhttp://www.metafilter.com/76958/WFMUTV
WFMU-TV; <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7CXqnZmj4Q">That's</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA5atKYKhBo&feature=related">Irritainment</a> (Heino, Shatner):
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aDVlFzF5Kk">Baby Octopus</a>:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9hDvKd-oqU">Love Onion</a>:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMePPSyQJuE">Hisao Shinagawa</a>:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC5M31_ltQc">Organisation- Ruckzuck</a> (Kraftwerk):
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW3uqvQ5XbA">You Must Choose!</a>:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6huQHDcjWY">FAUST</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.76958Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:47:55 -0800vronskyWho's Afraid of Opera?http://www.metafilter.com/50283/Whos%2DAfraid%2Dof%2DOpera
<a href="http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2006/03/what_were_up_ag.html#more">Panda's Thumb reports</a> elementary music teacher <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_3540512">Tresa Wagonner </a>was put on paid administrative leave by the superintendent of schools in Bennett, Colorado. Her offense? Playing a 12-minute clip from the thirty-year-old children's series <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6301666518/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">"Who's Afraid of Opera?"</a> for her classroom. The series features legendary soprano Joan Sutherland and some cute little hand-puppets who alternate elementary explanations of the libretti with vocal performances of selections from the operas featured. Apparently, Ms. Wagonner's selected episode, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gounod">Gounod's</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust_%28opera%29">Faust</a>, angered fundamentalist Bennettians, already on the warpath over <a href="http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4529857,00.html">Waggoner's musical choices</a> for last year's Christmas pageant. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.50283Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:30:20 -0800VMCRock out with your Kraut outhttp://www.metafilter.com/49668/Rock%2Dout%2Dwith%2Dyour%2DKraut%2Dout
<a href="http://www.krautrockgroup.com/PASTUPDATES.html">Krautrock:</a> From the hypnotic rhythms and melodies of <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=1s_5OwIK4aM">Can</a>, to the <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=7yaODadEcbU">revolutionary </a> <a href="http://www.hyperionwebs.com/electronicshadows/archives/techtalk/synths_of_kraftwerk.htm">electronics</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk">Kraftwerk</a>. <a href="http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/watw/02-05/krautrock.shtml">Krautrock</a> was a genre that spawned many genius acts. The communal bands like <a href="http://www.progweed.net/reviews/amonduulii/amonduulii-band.html">Amon Duul II</a> and <a href="http://www.krautrockgroup.com/Siloah.html">Siloah</a> that were soon to be emulated by cult-like restaurant owners, <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/49657">Ya Ho Wha </a>. There were the obscure acts like <a href="http://www.krautrockgroup.com/Zweistein.html">Zweistein</a> whose sound evokes thoughts of current bands like <a href="http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/artistInfo.php?id=53">Animal Collective</a> and <a href="http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/wwvv1.html">Wooden Wand</a>. And there were albums the <a href="http://www.krautrockgroup.com/PopolVuh.html">ground-breaking</a> albums like <a href="http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/02/tangerine_dream.html">Tangerine Dream's</a> dark, ambient, <a href="http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/display.php?rev=td-phae">Phaedra</a> and the <a href="http://www.starsend.org/ashra.html">Manuel Gottsching</a> record <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:p7ivad6kt8wj">E2-E4</a> which is considered to be the first techno album ever produced.</a> Needless to say, <a href="http://www.krautrock.com/">Krautrock's</a> <a href="http://www.faust-pages.com/records.master.html">influence</a> has been <a href="http://progressive.homestead.com/GERMANYPROG.html">lasting</a> and <a href="http://www.annexus.homestead.com/krautrock1.html">monumental</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.49668Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:39:46 -0800cloeburner